“Amelia nodded her head, "That makes perfect sense." "No is doesn't," jeered Otto. "Yes, it does,” sighed Amelia. "Don't you ever remember… — Monet Polny Copy Share Image
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Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“As it happens I am comfortable with the Michael Laskis of this world, with those who live outside rather than in, those… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“I would not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without a profound study of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“I am not saying all of this in the spirit of “provocation,” I hope, but merely to try out these reflections on… — Scott Cowdell Copy Share Image
“My concern is that you will face some delays and disappointments at this formative time in your life and feel that no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Father is pleased with your progress. You humans are all the same you know. You’re always refusing just to enjoy the moment… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
A hard Brexit would be so damaging to the true interests of the UK that what might follow - if we are… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Lilianna: Ask me again later. Tate: Okay Lil'Miss. Magic 8 Ball. Lilianna: Really, ask me again in a few weeks. I'll have… — H.R. Willaston Copy Share Image
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
“The Islamic faith and ideology is at another pivotal moment in its history. Having survived for a thousand years or more after… — Cal Sarwar on facebook Copy Share Image
“Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of what history and experience has… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“He grinned like a proud male and moved closer. “It was good.” “Are you asking or telling?” “I know it was good.”… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There can have been no doubt in Eleanor's mind as to what was expected of her as a wife. In her day,… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
“War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just… — Bill Carter Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It was the history of the family, written by Melquíades, down to the most trivial details, one hundred years ahead of time.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
